TRAJECTORY OF DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AS AN INDEPENDENT FIELD OF KNOWLEDGE

The article shows the importance of economic analysis in the system of economic knowledge, its formation as an independent area of ​​research. The main stages of the formation of theoretical and methodological principles of analysis and the development of practice in leading economic entities are analyzed. The preconditions for the formation and development of complex economic analysis, its role and significance in improving management in the activities of economic entities are considered; shows the possibilities of using modern methods and approaches to the development of complex economic analysis and the expansion of its use in the practice of economic entities of different levels. The article is based on the disclosure of the role of the leading Russian scientist, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation Anatoly Danilovich Sheremet, in the development of economic science and economic analysis, as an independent area of ​​knowledge, who for many decades headed the Russian scientific school of economic analysis.